{"id":302,"date":"2023-06-13T13:28:06","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T20:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-usc-dornsife.pantheonsite.io\/larry-goldstein\/?page_id=302"},"modified":"2023-06-20T13:00:56","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T20:00:56","slug":"gesm-160-adventures-in-mathematics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/larry-goldstein\/gesm-160-adventures-in-mathematics\/","title":{"rendered":"GESM 160 &#8211; Adventures in Mathematics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><big>Mathematics is one of the oldest human endeavors and has components that span from the practical to the aesthetic. Mathematics lies at the foundation of scientific endeavor, and has been crucial in the development and fast paced advancement of technology. Despite its arcane language of symbols, the power and beauty of mathematics reveals itself in many forms. The course will consider the expression of mathematics in the abstract and the every day, through the exploration of numbers, paradoxes, dimension, coincidences, mathematics in the arts, games, cryptography, magic and juggling.\u00a0<\/big><\/p>\n<p><big>Instructor:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/larry-goldstein\/\">Larry Goldstein<\/a>, larry at usc dot edu, KAP 406D, 213 740 2405. Office Hours: TBA<\/big><br \/>\n<big><\/big><br \/>\n<big><strong>Lecture:<\/strong>\u00a0VKC 157, MW 2:00-3:20, 35483D<\/big><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <h2>Texts<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Diaconis and Graham: Magical Mathematics: The Mathematical Ideas That Animate Great Magic Tricks<\/li>\n<li>Gamow: One, two, three, infinity (Chapters 1 and 2)<\/li>\n<li>Abbott: Flatland, a romance of many dimensions<\/li>\n<li>Mlodinow: The Drunkard&#8217;s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives<\/li>\n<li>Freedman, Pisani, Purves:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Statistics-Fourth-David-Freedman-ebook\/dp\/B00SLB5Q72\/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1445474166&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=statistics+freedman\">Statistics<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <h2>Links<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Large Numbers: &#8220;Describe, on a 3 x 5 card, as large a positive integer as you can&#8221; see\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.maa.org\/sites\/default\/files\/pdf\/upload_library\/22\/Ford\/Spencer669-675.pdf\">Spencer<\/a>\u00a0(first 2 pages),\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ackermann_function\">Ackermann function<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mediaburn.org\/video\/the-hypercube-projections-slicing-others\/\">Visualizing four dimensions<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/M%C3%B6bius_strip\">Mobius Strip<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Klein_bottle\">Klein Bottle<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Radio Lab,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.radiolab.org\/story\/91684-stochasticity\/\">Stochastiticy<\/a>\u00a0parts A: A Very Lucky Wind, and B: Seeking Patterns<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Fermats-Enigma-Greatest-Mathematical-Problem\/dp\/0385493622\">Fermat&#8217;s Enigma<\/a>, Simon Singh<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Code-Book-Science-Secrecy-Cryptography\/dp\/0385495323\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1442678772&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=the+code+book\">The Code Book<\/a>, Simon Singh<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Borromean_rings\">Borromean Rings<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nim\">Game of Nim<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Knot-Book-Colin-Adams\/dp\/0821836781\">The 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href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Chaos-Making-Science-James-Gleick-ebook\/dp\/B004Q3RRPI\/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1445474088&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=james+gleick+chaos\">Chaos: Making a New Science,<\/a>\u00a0James Gleick<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/samplings\/math-and-music\">Mathematics and Music<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nontransitive_dice\">Non-transitive dice,<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/2974903?seq=7#page_scan_tab_contents\">analysis of non-transisitive dice\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Penney%27s_game\">Penny&#8217;s game<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <h2>Exams and Grading Policy<\/h2>\n<p><strong><big>Grading Policy<\/big><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>15% Course Participation<\/li>\n<li>30% Homework and in class assignments<\/li>\n<li>25% Midterm exam, Monday Feb 27th<\/li>\n<li>30% Final Project: each student will pick a topic to develop, prepare a writeup and make a class presentation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <h2 style=\"text-align: left;\">Important Dates and Information<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>September 11th, last day to register and add, or to drop without mark of W<\/li>\n<li>November 13th, last fday to drop a class with mark of W<\/li>\n<li>December 4th, classes end<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><big><a href=\"http:\/\/classes.usc.edu\/term-20171\/calendar\/\">Full registration calendar<\/a><\/big><br 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